2019 Barracuda Championship Odds & Preview

The PGA Tour has its alternate event in Western Nevada this weekend, with a wide-open field missing all of the top 50 players, because they are at the WGC-FedEx St. Jude Invitational in Memphis. Jim Herman is an intriguing play,as he won the Barbasol Championship last week, but he still hasn’t cracked the top 125 on the FedExCup standings. Collin Morikawa is a rookie who came in second at the 3M Open but is still looking for that first win on the Tour. Doc Redman, runner-up at the Rocket Mortgage Classic, is chasing the same goal. The defending champion, Andrew Putnam, is in Memphis, but the runner-up for 2018, Chad Campbell, is here. He has not won a PGA Tour event since 2007. The Montreux Golf and Country Club will host the tournament, with a course running 7,472 yards at par 72. This tournament is the only one on the PGA Tour that still uses the Stableford scoring system, giving points for each hole, which means that, unlike most tournaments, the higher the score, the better. You get no points for a par, but you get two for a birdie, five for an eagle and eight for an albatross. A bogey subtracts a point, while double-bogey or worse takes away three. So you could have the same score for the tournament as someone else but have a different point total — and the point total determines the winner. We have your golf odds as well as suggestions for your wager cards.

2019 Barracuda Championship Odds & Preview

• Location: Reno, Nevada, U.S.
• Established: 1999
• Course: Montrêux Golf & Country Club
• Par: 72
• Length: 7,472 yards
• Tour: PGA Tour
• Format: Modified Stableford
• Prize fund: $3.5 million
• Live Stream: Golf.tv

Contender Odds to Win the 2019 Barracuda Championship

• Collin Morikawa                                                                                                          +1000
• Martin Laird, Martin Kaymer                                                                                       +1800
• Daniel Berger, Emiliano Grillo                                                                                                +2000
• Russell Henley                                                                                                            +2200
• Sepp Straka, Ryan Palmer                                                                                         +2500
• Bill Haas, Cameron Tringale                                                                                       +2800
• Denny McCarthy, Jhonattan Vegas, Sam Ryder                                                       +3300
• JJ Spaun                                                                                                                     +3500
• Brendan Steele, Andrea Pavan, Wes Roach, Andrew Landry, Pat Perez                +4000
• Chris Stroud                                                                                                                +4500
• Bronson Burgoon, Roger Sloan, Sam Saunders, Beau Hossler, Josh Teater, Sebastian Munoz                                                                                  +5000
• Richy Werenski                                                                                                           +5500
• Troy Merritt                                                                                                                 +6000
• Harris English, Jonas Blixt, Kelly Kraft, Stephan Jaeger, Brandon Harkins, Cameron Davis, Patrick Rodgers, Adam Svensson, DJ Trahan, Zach Sucher        +6600
• Seamus Power, Hank Lebioda, Jim Herman, Joey Garber, Johnson Wagner,
• Kramer Hickok, Kyong-Hoon Lee, Ryan blaum, Alex Prugh, Tom Hoge, Peter Uihlein                                                                                            +8000
• Dominic Bozzelli, Robert Streb, Ben Silverman                                                        +10000

Emiliano Grillo

Grillo is ranked 62nd in the world right now and is in the top seven in the field in stroke gained: par 5s, double bogeys avoided and opportunities gained, using the SportsBookWire metric system. He was the PGA Tour Rookie of the Year in 2016 but has not won a tournament since the Frys.com Open in 2015. He has made 18 of 19 cuts, with two finishes in the top 10, although he missed the cut at the Open Championship last weekend. In a soft field like this, though, he is among the best players, and he offers a lot of value.

Denny McCarthy

McCarthy ranks fourth in this field in strokes gained: putting. He tied for eleventh a week ago at the Barbasol Championship last week, which was the alternate event to the Open Championship, which means he was near the top of a field that resembles this one in terms of overall strength.

Troy Merritt

Merritt was the 2018 Barbasol Championship winner but missed the cut in his title defense last week. He has cracked the top 10 in 17 different tournaments this year but has missed three cuts in his last four starts. Because of the Stableford system, his excellence in Opportunities Gained should net him a lot of points.

Justin Suh

Suh is a long shot for you to consider. He used to be the top-ranked amateur in the world, but Matthew Wolfe, Collin Morikawa and Viktor Hovland have passed him by. He has only made one cut as a professional, which came at the 3M Open. But if you’re looking for someone outside the contender ranks to make a big play on, he’s one to consider.